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N°. 2819.

BIRTH.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

The Chongkong Telegraph.

At Newchwang, on the 26th March, 1991, the wife of W. MARTINSON, of the 1.M. Customs, of

a daughter.

DEATHS.

At Peking, on 18th March, Mr. J. GURRIK. At 32, Nanking Road, Shanghai, on the 10th Instant, THOMAS HAROLD VALE, in his 42nd On the 26th of March, at Hou Li Likin Ofice, Kao-Yao Halen, WILLIAM SILLS, of Her Britannic

year.

Majesty's Colonial Service, Singapore, ..

The Honghong Telegraph.

HONGKONG THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1891.

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this Christian-like

him to gain sufficient strength to go forth

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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1891.

had Colonial Governors within

agemote that passes here as being a Chamber of Commerce, to send even the most able representatives, since they are Invariably the under-dog in the fight, Hongkong, if it has to pay itsown taxes and THE GOVERNOR'S 'DESPATCH.

support its own standing army, wants to say what and whom it shall pay and the only Long long ago the Psalmist counselled commonsense way of attaining that end is by following the admirable example of succeeding generations to put to trust the Australian colonies by sweeping away in Princes."nor. Added

in any son of man. Could he, in anything but feel the Colonial pulse, say that the Sage the present anomalous body that never does the infinity of his wondrous wisdom, have we want bleeding and promptly lance us focus of his mind when he conceived Municipal Council before very long, if we the for all we are worth. We shall have a so irrefutable a truism? Fifteen months don't imitate Macao by dying of sheer ago we sank our own private pessimistic() inertia, or the (now) deserted island of opinions to some extent after having read St. Thomas, that his Excellency told Sir G. W.DIS Vaux now historic despatch us of the other day when the afflatus had and, having no desire to pose as a modern evaporated. Hongkong wants self-govern and masculine Cassandra, hoped and ment; she isn't yearning for 1.500 extra

Jay.

troops, and she doesn't care a cent that the aforesaid document was not if the Fleet goes permanently away but and loses itself, but she does claim the only based on existing facts possessed also a full measure of pro- right to run her own drainage system. searching so closely as is our wont into her public servants little or much, or the foundations upón which Governor DES Veux had built his golden castle anent

whether we are to have a person to the Arabian Nights-like prosperity of Hongkong as it was at that period, and of the unheard-of riches that lay buried in its accumulative sources of wealth.

SIX DOLLARS.

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the light of old custom in Hongkong. THE returns of the number of visitors to the City

Hall Museum for the week ending Avril fath, eret: Honourable rivalry in business, as in most other things, is an unknown quantity here;Europeans 165, and Chinese 1,991; 10tal 2,150. the dog-in-the-manger policy is all but vir. T. Lloyd Williamese, the well-known Editor universally recognised and strictly carried of the Bangkok Times. Arrived here on the qut whenever possible and, therefore, the 14th inst; on a short visit. He reports very back-handed abus- so freely bestowed favorably of general prospects in the "Land of

the Waite Elephant," by a rabid mou of interested schemers on the promoters of the National Bank of The Scottish Oriental ('a's comer Mongkut, China is not so very surprising. It is Cap, Sindur, which sen comparison between the qualities, social in resume her old place on the Bangkok ling not our provinco to draw any invidious Portland, Oregon, an t-e 8th inst, is, we hear," státus, influence, etc., of the gentlemen to-tay, her charter by the Canadian Pacific rival Banks; but there is anything our friend Nornian, of Pall Mall Gasette fame, forming the respective Boards of the two Company having exoled meaner or more contemptible on the face is likely to find that it is not all gold that fillers of the earth, than the Court" of the in Siamese emcessings. The Siam Gazete Hongkong Bank in its administrative bears that unfar een dificulties are assing capacity, we should like to know where it

which are likely to lessen the ningnificent pros is to be found. The National Bank of Pets which he had lied him el, all tao China! It is expecter, will start active operations in this colony within three months of the present date. We wish it every prosperity.

soon, would phire him in the l ́n of Juxury, confided, 50 far as in US

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gamblers who had been raided in their a lot of sound wisdom in these remarks own houses and who had the bad luck which local dispensers of justice would neither to be members of the Hongkong do well to take to heart, and which the Club nor to have the special privilege | Government should not lose sight of, of running a barefaced gambling show by the Powers-that-will-not-see, the erring sampan girls, the abnormally thirsty senman, and the man who was unfortunate enough to be found with a few pieces of wood in his possession which belonged to nobody in particular, were each and all relegated to Victoria Gaol, to the select society of convicts, as the latest consign- ment of specially manufactured Hongkong criminals. The ear-ring snatcher was initiated into the mysteries of British civilisation by being stripped, tied up like a dog, and his flesh cut nut in pieces by two stalwart turnkeys, operation necessitating & three weeks HOW CRIMINALS ARE MANUFAC-Rie-back in the Gaol Hospital to enable

TURED IN HONGKONG.

to hard labor in the shape of the crank, The time is 9 a.m. and the scene is laid shot-drill, oakum-picking, or carrying big inthe gloomy, evil-smelling pig-sty which lumps of stone from one end of the yard does duty for a Police Court in Hongkong, to the other for the edification of the phetic virtues. So we refrained from and to say, whether she can afford to pay LOCAL AND GENERAL. The "pen" is crowded with the customary officers in charge. Europeans are variety of the heathen Chinese; old and exempted from the crank and from stone young of both sexes are huddled together carrying, and they are never flogged unless waiting to face the music. Enter his under extraordinary circumstances-there Worship, gey, smiling and debonair, is only one case an record under the humming a popular melody from the existing regulations so that, not- In his coat. And then the fun begins, to the contrary, the European prisoner is a It is not very exciting to the onlookers. favored mortal, and we think he ought to A couple of newspaper reporters yawn be, even to a far greater extent than is the audibly at the table, an inspector of police case. When this young Chinese is sent and a budding solicitor discuss in under-forth from prison with the indelible marks tones the merits of a gaming-house case of the convict on him, where is he going? that is on the list, the door ways are what is he going to do? Can there be blocked by policemen and idlers of various any reasonable doubt on the subject? We descriptions, and the back of the room is think not. He will go forth to starvation, crowded by Celestials interested in the and he will steal whatever he can lay proceedings. The magistrate loses no his hands on to allay the pangs of hunger; time in settling down to work, and the he will be again arrested, committed to the -gaming-house case is first called. Two Supreme Court as an old offender, victims are sent into retirement, for, six sentenced to a term of penal servitude, and months with hard labour, two others all hope of reclamation or reformation will getting off with half that sentence, the have gone. heavy fines imposed not being forthcoming.

MR. CHARLES PEARSON, aroomi officer of the American shin Great Admiral, met with a

somewhat serious accident on Sunday last, whilst superintending the weighing of the anchor. Just. as it was fed and being swung "la biard the chain of the drick pave way and caught? him round the sim, breaking it above the elbɔw. He is at present in the C›vil Hospital

HMS Imperieuse, Cant. Pol, left the harbour A general overhaul..

the 14th inst, on a trial trip, alter undergoing MR. H. M. CHER will perhaps feel a thrill of

"Contrabandista" and with a choice orchid withstanding many official protestations then-existing industries and chimericat need not go as far as our neighbours did in MR. T. He: Vale, of the firm of Evans, Vale that the shareholders of the Osaka Railway:

Is this wholesale manufacture of criminals

We have a score of times of late pointed out of how fictitious a nature is the boasted prosperity of this most wretched of all the mis-governed British colonies upon which the sun has, according to ultra-ling notions, been ordered to shine for ever- more: the sun shines here at present under a pretty thick cloud which obscures most people to a considerable extent. It. however, remained for the Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD, & banker and a keen man of business, to bring out in the so-called local Legislative Council on the roth inst, facts which have the stubborn support of figures behind them, to prove absolute truth of our previous the assertions, And to shatter the few in which Governor pas Vaux pictured Hongkong to be, when that gambling mania of '89 had distended the Colony almost even to the extent of blessed bustedness and which is now so fully realized and so keenly felt..

preach, or a new roof to our "Joss". houses, without regard to the "respectful phrasing of any future amendments. We Shanghal, as Sir-RICHARD RENNIE con- fessed recently, and say we don't care a d-n whether the thing is regular or not," but at the same time we want less Parliamentary Practice" And more horse-sense displayed; we want to supply our requirements in the cheapest markets, and to be in a position enabling us when necessary to give 'n week's notice to those expensive nonentities, the Crown Agents, or to our other local servants, the now pampered Government Officials. And we also want it to be understood that Hongkong is now quite old enough, and also capable enough, of knowing its own requirements and governing its own expenditure, and that it is by far the best Judge as to what should be, and above all,

what will be. This idea is already in: more will be heard of it anon.

& Co., Shanghai, was found dead in bed on the morning of the 10th inst. He had not been well for a day or two. · Dath was due to syncope. :

CAPTAIN H. M.-Jones, H. B. M.'s Minister Resident at the Court of Siam, nerived here on

the 14th inst. from Bangkok, having come over in search of health, in the Somdeich Phra Nang. Ter south-west monsoon, judging by the reports of vessels entering this part during the past forty-eight hours, is setting In fast and a strong SW. current it to be met with in the region of Turnabout and the Paracels.

AN enterprising company has been formed la Tokyo to take over unoccupied islands in the Pacific. Rajah Francts. Q.C., might do a little mine on his wilderness in Borneo yet-er has. business with them if, be hasn't found a gold-

THE body of a Chinaman was found floating in

ndar Ynurha-ti by a lukong. The deceased had evidently been in the water some considerable time as his features were beyond recognition. St. Peter alone knows who he was. THE Interminable cause ceithre known as "the

pleasure that, ble the gentleman Gilbert tells ~ us of, he is an Englishman," when he learns Company, at a special general meeting, held recently, decreed that the officials of the Company should raise the money to complete the line. For "line" read "mine," Mr. B.

GOOD news for our local Deck Company. Then, Siamese Government, says the Bangkok Times, is seriously thinking of augmenting its fleet by the purchase of one or two more vessels of the Raja Kumarn 'ty e Our contemporary adds that Siam is quietly becoming possessed of a very respectable lit le navy, and the rising generation are being taught to become smart sailors.

These four men presented outwardly a justified? Can nothing be done to avert remaining ruins of that golden state motion, and is in very capabla hands the barbour on, the altcineon of the 13th in, staff, are issuing oppisition Fiji's, each claiming

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respectable appearance and there was it, to lessen an evil that threatens to nothing about them to indicate the ordinary swamp Hongkong with convicts who stamp of a criminal; and they were made might have been useful members of the members of that class for an offence which community but for the Draconian and is openly carried out in high places through-mistaken severity of our magistrates and qut the colony and complacently winked judges? In our opinion the present at by the authorities.

A number of system of so-called prohibitive sentences is unfortunates who had set at naught the scathing satire on the laudatory pro- Opium Ordinance were next quickly sent to fessions of civilised government we are so swell the already over-crowded ranks and fond of Indulging in, and is detrimental to to herd indiscriminately, with robbers, the general interests of this colony, house-breakers and other hardened gaol Besides, it is a system that in England is birds. Mendicants and vagrants of various acknowledged to have proved a pronounced kinds and of both sexes, unlicensed hawkers, failure. To send a man to gaol for debt, several sampan girls who had broken gambling, evading the Optum Ordinance, the peace by slanging each other, for being a mendicant or unlicensed European sailor who had Imbibed distilled hawker, or for numerous other minor damnation not wisely but too well the breaches of the, letter of the law, previous night in Taipingshan, a miserable- is altogether out of harmony with the spirit looking wretch who was charged with and character of the age in which we live; "unlawful possession" he was arrested whilst the severe sentences passed for acts with a few pieces of wood picked up in the of petty larceny, the most numerous class street, and afterwards committed suicide in of offences with 'which our judges. have to gad! by hanging himself with his waist-belt deal, only defeat the end in view. With and several other minor offenders were reference to the last named crime Mr. all carefully gathered in" by outraged RECORDER Horwood, one of the ablest of Justice, and his Worship was just preparing English judges, recently said :- to quit the busy scene of his every-day life when a gigantic Sikh policeman strode forward and violently threw-that is the only, proper expression we can think of to accurately describe the brutal method adopted a young Chinese lad of about 18 years of age into the now empty dock. This was a serious offender against public. morality, and accordingly the dispenser of Police Court law and justice settled himself back in his chair and grimly smiled, in a fashion that foreboded a bad time for the prisoner. Perhaps. his Worship was disappointed and annoyed at being detained just as he was preparing to start for the Club! perhaps he was noti but, anyhow, this is what took place. The Chinese youth, an emaciated lad who had evidently been in a state of semi. starvation for weeks, was charged with the

Rustomjee Bankruptcy" was again the subject of a good deal of legal, chatter at the Supreme Court on the 11th inst., and resulted in another adjournment, this time to the rat proximo, to allow time for the filing of properly audited accounts showing the bankrupt's business record up to the time of his adjutication. In Saturday's Gearle the Acting Harbour master notifies that, as the Provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1890, will take effect in this Colpay from the 9th June next, shipowners should at once take steps to mark their ships at required by the Act before that date, and, whilst vessels are in dock, apply for certificates of approval from the Board of Trade officer. ACORRESPONDENT wants to know who concocted the Post Office Report for 1890, published in our columnsion the 14th inst — Travers or Sercombe Smith What cacophonous chair-bearers" are? who translated the French despatches from Vicomte Bezure and the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs? and what the Report is

intended to convey and what useful purpose it is likely to to serve? We give it up.

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POLITICIANS are the same all the world over, Simbus wanted to turn out the editor the other from Tralee to Tokyo. The owners of the Fiji day, because he wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic in the Liberal cause, but he wouldn't budge, and now he and his "successor, with their rival.

to be the only authoritative organ. Mr. Parnell and United Ireland are not in it, MR. E. W. MAITLAND,, Hon. Treasurer, of the Alice Memorial Hospital, begs to acknowledge; with thanks the following donations to the fanda... of the hospital :-Arnbold, Katberg, & Co.,?, $100; Holliday Wise & Co., $100; Reiss & Co $too: E. D. Sassoon & Co, 3100 1 Slemssen de Co., $100; Gilman & Co., $to; Meichers & Co., so; W, G. Humphreys Con 325: E. S Whealler, gro; Mak Lal Tong, $10; Officers, steamer Fokien, $10; J. Gomes, $ic ;'and V. Caneco, $5.

THE Hon. E. Trotter, Auditor-General of the Straits Settlements, has been distinguishing himself in a new direction, few days ago he invaded the French Consulate, with a couple of with a crowd of friends, were celebrating the native palice, and arrested eight natives who... marriage of a peon employed, there. As the hend and freat of their, offending was only that, they were all reading the Koran at the top of their voices, the "prisoners" were discharged, and now Mr. Trotter is wishing he had good a little slower.

THE schoolmaster hasn't got as far abroad as the humble domicile of Yee On, washerman, or he would never have written to bribe a patron 1 day or two ago, as follows per –

THE National BANK OF CHINA. For some weeks past it has been an open The thing speaks for itself, and it is secret in local commercial circles that almost pitiable to recognise upon how rotten active measures were on foot for the basis the brilliant despatch' was built formation of a new bank on a large scale how gassy the facts, and how slippery in Hongkong, with branches in the Straits the figures. It needs no special pleading Settlements, the Treaty Ports of China to shew that--anyone who has lived in and Japan, and elsewhere. The accuracy Hongkong for the last year or two can of the reports current has been amply decide for himself, without our comments, if demonstrated, and the National Bank of he will read a few extracts. Carried away China, Limited, is now for all practical by the fictitious prosperity of the period, purposes an established fact. The Sir G. W. DES VEUX, in the despatch capital of this rival to the Hongkong and referred to, practically invited the Home Shanghai Banking Corporation is one Government to handicap this colony to an million sterling, and of the first issue of unlimited extent. He has admitted it. In half a million, £300,000-49.925 ordinary the despatch he described our (artificial) shares of £10 each and 750 founders prosperity in breathless phrases as from a shares £t each were offered for subscrip- coup d'ail. Better had he said a coup de soleil. tion in Hongkong, China, and the East, Who can wholly blame Lord KNUTSFORD for £200,000 being specially reserved for doubling cur military contribution when Europe. The subscription list closed he read ten columns of solid taffy" on the 7th inst, and wa are aredibly I am of opinion that for petty larcentes, about our wealth and importance-a screed informed that the applications not only though often repeated, the long terms of imprison which would have done credit to the greatly exceeded the anticipations of the

Sir-I have the honor to inform you that as ment given are cruel and useless; for there is most romantic globe-trotter or the lead- Directors, but were far in excess of the AN'American contemporary, tells us that, "therm much acknowledge your so kindness to not a trace of evidence of reform in the offendering humbug In the Company-promoting number of shares available for allotment. Chinese Government has engaged a German look out me nd give me such work to do and I 'can't bring you any gand chance. Now I have produced by them. I judge each case as it

line True, his Excellency did try in The object of the National Bank official named Lieske to establish ao extensive scs, and proportion the sentence to the nature

a dignified way to take it all back at the China is fairly indicated by its name, and brick manufactory near Hongkong. The object 4tacks (presumably studs) and a muff tacks of the Gavemment in starling these works is to | (sleeve-link») to plesent to you, please you will of the offence. I am, too, of opinion that the Council meeting on sentences for embezzlement, false pretences and

the 19th uit., by as general bankers and finance agents, prevent the building of frame houses in crowded received it with much oblidge. Larceny by servants have been shocking, and saying that this Colony was "egarded with its head-quarters in this colony and sections of cities, centuries of experience with ciculated to break down for life or add to the by the outside world as very wealthy" under the guidance of an able chief worden buildings being very disastrous," criminal classes people whom great leniency whereas it was in a state of collapse, but manager, assisted by an efficient staff, the Another instance of having to go far abroad to might save and recover to honesty and respect he was not honest enough to go further, prospects of securing a fair share of what-get news of home. ability. I deal with five hundred prisoners and and

say "It was So regarded ever business may be going is undeniable. mere annually, and in two thousand sentences

and, consequently, oppressed with this But this Bank has peculiar advantages punishment is two-thirds less than in the time I gave none of penal servitude. My average of fresh burden of the increased military over all rivals. It has been founded of my predecessor, and I am convinced that the contribution, through my inaccurate and under the direct auspices of the most sentences throughout the country might safely exaggerated picture of local affairs. The influential Chinese in the Empire, and has, be reduced in that ratio. I practised many years Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD did this for him, on been guaranteed the support of the Viceroy at two Courts of Session, both held in Manchester. the roth, and his Excellency should thank | Li Hugo-CHANG and other officials of the One for that borough was held before a Recorder his kinder stars that he was prevented highest rank. There would, indeed, seem with whom a sentence of penal servitude for a

from hearing so crushing a criticism to be very little doubt that the vast forladiction over Salford, the twin

as hat delivered by Mr. WHITEHEAD, in in fature be negociated through this Bank; whom the public have at last found a and in view of projected railways and representative who is note dumb nonentity, the opening of mines all over the country His unofficial colleagues rose to the occy. In addition to extensive water work lyd

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LAST Saturday afternoon six companies from the 91st Regiment, with a portion of the Sikh Artillery and thres guns manned by members of the Volunteer Corps, took pit in'a sham attack H.M.S. Archer: Commander J. Ferris, arrived

at Deep Water Bay. Col. Chater commanded. yesterday morning from the west coast of Africa, the combined forces, Capt, McCallum, having from which station she has been transferred to the charge of the Volunteers. The latter had a most China squadron,. She is a win screw cruiser of arduous task before them in placing their guns the 3rd class, 1,770 tonu, 3,50 H.P, and carries on a sterpbush covered ridge, but they did it with six runs, and was commissioned at Devonport great expedition, and some marvellously good in December 1838, She replaces the Cordella gunnery was exhibited. A very striking innova- on the China Station, and was to have been tipn was witnessed in nne respect, in the amalga relieved on her late station by the ill-fated. Sormation with the Volunteer Ambulance Corps of

on her passage

grievous crime of ear-ring, suatching second offence was almost certain. The other upon his ability as a painter and gilder | volums of Chinese financial business will 1. Pent, which foundered off Cape Finisterre whilst | a squad of native students from the Alico

out,

Memorial Hospital-the first time that trained y Chinese, combatant.or otherwise, have.marched.

the idea of

under the British flag. Dr. Cantle; (to whom believe, dite) organised a series of suppositious:

MR. GRD MILNE Dramatic Company, which left for Shanghal by the English mill steamer early on the morning of the 14'h fastant, will open for a cason # the Lyccupi cases of wounded, soldiers, who, between, tha Theatre la the Medel. Settlement on er Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the contingent Kobe and Yokohama, and Mr. Miln hopes to which even the General bad to praise, about Saturday. It is contemplated to visit of students, were soon attended to in a way, arrange to perform before the Mikado in Tokyo, On returning to Hongkong the Company will RECENT information received about the picking produce a number of novelles, including of the new leaf from the various tes districis Julius Catar," "Richelieu," "The Fool's says the Foochote Echo, is truly lamentable, fa Revenge, etc.

The return, of the Kiangkwan, after a thorough overhaul, to the Canton river service, followed by the defur of the new river steamer Taf on, on the same. route, has resulted. In all

fact it is so bad that one is almost inclined to believe that no naw teas can be expected in the market... We know that natives have the unen- riable reputation of being capable of spreadlog false sews. But, after allowing a hundred per cent, of what we have been informed to be fafie,

Here are the facts, brought out in evidence: Gout, having for harge portion of fire, populoin The offence was committed somewhere places adjoining, was presided ove by a paid near the Chinese Recreation Ground; the chairman, barrister, who gave much such lad admitted he was very hungry and was scalences as I do. The over-wise and confid nt trying to appease Nature's cravings with would predict that, as the population, proptity, sion even--fancy that i-and lived, and reclamation schemes for Canton and

and temptation of the two jurisdictions were stale vegetables and fruit picked nimilar, the Salford criminals would grow in because his Excellency wasn't there. already been sanctioned and are in moved, and had their belrig-perhaps other large cities, many of which have out of the road-way, when suddenly numbers. Nothing of the kind. The lesson a Chinese girl came rolling along wis not lost on me, leaned, thirty-five years And the result was what? A denial of course of active preparation, operations conspicuous for a pair of gorgeous since my own observation and experience have the truth about the state of local affairs, are likely In the very near future to ornaments, valus about twenty cents, inverified its teaching he cay is constant from an official vote that was as discreditable assume almost gigantic proportions. And her pink little ears. The starving wretch the dock, I have sought, work in vain Oh, as the bartered vote of a prejudiced jury, though we consider that the huge profits never thought of British morality, he had give me some!! Ing to do!' The man who

a swamping majority of might over right, realised during the past eighteen months never heard of British immaculate Justice can listen to such appeals and yet treat such criminals es voluntary agent, as peals to be got

another nail in the coffin of the present by the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank the time was not yet when the Heir to the rid of and argue that, society: bas a right to system of local Government!

were mainly fictitious and unreliable, and, Throne had grossly outraged the law and protect itself against pilfering by seniences Aye, that last phrase sums up public calculated in many respects to beguile the become a participator in one of the most sufficient for homicide, must be thoughtless or opinion (as far as that commodity is worth unwary/who were not behind the scenes disreputable scandalston recordat all stepid or cruci or pharisaical or doctrinaire to anything on Hongkong) in a nutshell, and did not enjoy the secret confidence of round reduction of fares-much to the delight of there yet remains a very gloomy prospect for the events he snatched at the tempting bauble, the extent to unit bias to judge his fellow men." We are governed too much and too little. the Supreme Dictator who bossed the the heathen Chinee, who freely admits that native tos, hongs here, and for the growers in the young lady squealed, and black And Lord Chief Justico CoLzEinor is of In another column can be read the walls show as he thought fit without restraint or opposition is the life of trade. The Steamboat the country. Of the former, we understand, that: Cal day boats now carry Chinese on the only two hongs out of ten have made some very GOLIATH In the Queen's uniform accom the same opinion as the Recorder. At of Il-treated ratepayers, lifting up their interference from the Court of Directors lower deck at ten, cents per capita, while small advances to those tea-men of good stand. plished the rest. The girl's car was not the Warwick Assizes a few months ago Ebenezer against the patch of small there are, nevertheless, good grounds for the night beats carry them to and from Cantoning, and these under conditions that the costs Injured, the earring was of no actual value, his lordship, in charging the grand jury, potatoes known as the Sanitary Board; belleving that the National Bank of China for no cents each, First-class Chinese passen. shall not exceed those ruling last season. Tals the offence in itself was not serious, the condemned the terrific severity with which we have seen what we have to endure has a paying field of operations ready at gers are taken for so cents lastend of a dollar, as no doubt is sise step, as it will prevent the.. extraneous circumstances were all in favor persons convicted for the third or fourth whilst we have a Legislative Council as at hand and every prospect of a successful beretofore. Added to this Chinese shippers usual competition in the hills, which may of the prisoner--he was starving and the time of small peccadilloes were frequently present constituted. What Hongkong career as the leading banking institution Inform us that they can now sead cargo by the be fairly assumed to have been the chief cause Steamboat Co.'s vessels at so per cent. leas why teas were laid down in this, market at such temptation was irresistible; and he was punished. He said that the result of hankers for is not to be rated as a first-class in the Far East.

freight, than formerly, which brings the charge high prices every year. It is also further stated not a habitual criminal, he had never been these severe sentences was that the rod colony at first-class, gilt edged, “fancy Of course, the promoters of the new for general cargo down to the Klangkwan's that a well-known and wealthy tes hong has In gaol before but his Worship is an broke in the hands of judges when they prices; our yearning Is for first-class concern disclaim all rivalry with the great and, Tit-ou'r rates. On the Canton Macao rne, refused in icio to grant any advances r nordoes. advocate of repressive measures and the came-to-deal with crimes of enormity, administration that can show sympathetic local Bank, but such a disclaimer means top, there has been a heavy reduction made this hong care to bave, anything to do with tes. 1. lash, and he sentenced this boy, to nine because they could not inflict heavier recognition of our needs, and judiciously absolutely nothing. It is inevitable that in passengers' fares, the China Merchants at all during the approaching sCRIOD. months' imprisonment with hard labour, supple punishment for these than had been guide our aspirations when we have any, with such a powerfully-supported rival in steamer Klang Ping having reduced the charge action has disappointed many tea-men, who are mented by two floggings of twenty siroker each | awarded for trumpery oflences..."Slowly. Our course is clear if only the mob the field the business of the Hongkong for Chinese from 50 cents per head to 20 cintas now cotirely without hope of obtaining any the opposition boat, White Cloud, has come advances. From the country we learn that, owing walls a rallion and then his Worship gally but surely, continued his lord of antagonistic cliques which make up and Shanghal Bank must be materially down to the same level and is carrying all she to the establishment of a low scale of wages, much!! picked his teeth and was carried down to the ship,ợt sound band humane views are Hongkong "Society" will but combine affected; to what extent, it is at present can and ream for at the latter figure. Whers, difficulty has been created in obtaining labourers, y Club where he was fenu, prinups in making their way, and the object of judges to follow some sensible leader forence. The Impossible, evento, gupss, but there, this cat-throat business will end it is dificnit | and

the, tea district la discussing the "up" of the town, and went 'should be to see how little punishment Legislative Council, must be made to | can be...no denying that the Court of to determine at present, but sure it is that the two understand that many of these have left, search of other "work, In home to tiffin with a splendid appetite, can be inflicted consistent with the safety move on. For years and years publicDirectors and the Immediate supporters foreignsowned river meamers are engaged in a fact the whole business la insa unsatisfactory And the lame and blind mendicants, the of society. The partial adoption of this opinion has clamoured for popular repte of thitaomewhat dubiously-constituted desperate attempt to sun off the Chinese a state that the amount of treasure, which has unorthodox vagrantsand nomadichawkers, system has already tended toe heavy sentations, and it has got to come to that anhedrim have exhibited a feeling of bitter owned vessels, while the latter, having substantial been sent up, country does not exceed five Chinese backing, are doing what, they claim hundred thousand dollars, (merely a firợp in the the daring ruffians who had bech captured decrease of crime In the country. At the It is not enough for that aggregation of dess towards their opponents, which is a rating business, turning in så least a per cunt, ocean). That this will: curtail to a great extent; red-handed with '* few pennyweights of time ilme, judges must not be squeamish time-serving tondies known ejusdoes of fomewhat mean and ophtemptible, ayak, os capital invested.. katawann will the foreign, the gathering of, at least, the disi szop lat unilsensed Optum in shir, pesatenauny che, where severity is necessary! There it'] the Pence, nar the mousisovared Whens, lean comprehensible when viewed in 1 puasengeri gai fenatuuble fates?

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